Proof of concept of using pthon together with either cython or cffi to create a notepad++ plugin

To create the cffi based plugin edit test_cffi.py and modify PLUGIN_NAME and NPP_DIR to your needs and then run python.exe test_cffi.py. If everything goes well the plugin got created and copied to notepad++ plugins directory.

To create the cython based plugin edit setup.py and modify PLUGIN_NAME, MODULE_NAME and NPP_DIR and in plugin.pxy modify LOG_FILE to your needs. Then run python.exe setup.py build_ext -i If there is no error the plugin will be created and copied to the notepad++ plugins directory.

Tested on Windows 10 x64 with

    Python 3.10.10
    cffi 1.15.1 (pip install cffi)
    cython 3.0.0b2 (pip install --pre cython)
    Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition